To ? 13 June [1872–4]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
June 13th
Dear Sir
Will you be so good as not to send any parcels to me by my post address, as each thus costs nearly 2s.2 If you wd. send all parcels to my Brothers House3
“6. Queen Anne St
Cavendish Sqre
London,”
(& make a memorandum of this address) I shd. be greatly obliged.
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year range is established by the headed notepaper, which is of a sort that CD used from 1872 to 1874.
In 1870, the Post Office abolished the inland pattern post (for commercial patterns and samples), which had provided a de facto parcel post (Economist, 31 December 1870, p. 1576; London Quarterly Review 38 (1872): 275). Parcels would have been conveyed by carriers and delivery companies, who might have charged on delivery. Books would have been sent by the Post Office’s book post, so this letter is unlikely to concern books.
CD’s brother was Erasmus Alvey Darwin.
Summary
Asks recipient to send parcels to his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin, at 6 Queen Anne Street, London, and not to Down.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8379F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Brandes Autographs (dealers) (January 2018)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8379F,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8379F.xml
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